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Old 09-26-2010, 08:23 PM
 
Location: Vermont / NEK
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Well, I'll enter the sweepstakes and say it was a porcupine. They can get pretty big and aren't too quick to move hither and yon. And if it WAS one, you did the right thing by keeping your Boxer at bay. Things could have gotten pretty ugly - for the dog.

This guy is just a young'n.

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Old 09-26-2010, 08:27 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Well, I'll enter the sweepstakes and say it was a porcupine. They can get pretty big and aren't too quick to move hither and yon.
I was thinking the same thing.
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Old 09-26-2010, 08:50 PM
 
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Yup!... looked at more images. It was much bigger... at least 3ft long and fatter and very messed up looking. I never pictured that would be a porcupine up in Maine... didn't look like quills like the kind you see in cartoons. THANK GOD I screamed when my husband opened the door and the dog started to run out!!!!
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Old 09-26-2010, 09:40 PM
 
Location: On a Slow-Sinking Granite Rock Up North
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Yup!... looked at more images. It was much bigger... at least 3ft long and fatter and very messed up looking. I never pictured that would be a porcupine up in Maine... didn't look like quills like the kind you see in cartoons. THANK GOD I screamed when my husband opened the door and the dog started to run out!!!!

Those things are all over the place. They don't dodge cars very well in my area either.
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Old 09-27-2010, 04:17 AM
 
Location: 3.5 sq mile island ant nest next to Canada
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Even a very young black bear would be a lot larger than a big groundhog. I think fischer is right.
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Old 09-27-2010, 05:38 AM
 
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Sounds like a project for Monsterquest- they've been in maine already-for the turner wild dog
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Old 09-27-2010, 06:38 AM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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In Maine you get the answers to life's great questions like, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"













To prove to the porcupine it could be done.
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Old 09-27-2010, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Backwoods of Maine
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Wait a minute - that coulda been Bigfoot crawling around! Quick, gimme yer address! I gotta get over there and look for tracks! Quick!
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Old 09-27-2010, 11:42 AM
 
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Those things are all over the place. They don't dodge cars very well in my area either.
I read that in the old days it was a social custom of the New England woods for no one to shoot or otherwise harm porcupines.

That was because porcupines were slow moving and the easiset animals for somone lost in the woods to catch and kill for food.

So people protected the porcupine population as survival insurance against the day when someone would get lost and need something to eat.
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Old 09-27-2010, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Mountains of middle TN
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I read that in the old days it was a social custom of the New England woods for no one to shoot or otherwise harm porcupines.

That was because porcupines were slow moving and the easiset animals for somone lost in the woods to catch and kill for food.

So people protected the porcupine population as survival insurance against the day when someone would get lost and need something to eat.
Can you imagine catching one of those suckers bare handed? Ouch!
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